Frances Wright Quotes

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

Frances Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: September 6, 1795 - December 13, 1852

Topics

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But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

Johann Arndt

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Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign trail.

Jennifer Palmieri

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You have to be delusional to get into this business, you know?

Anderson East

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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Jeanette Winterson

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The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

John Podhoretz

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For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.

Amy Heckerling

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It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.

Tory Burch

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I eat healthy year round.

Ronnie Coleman

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I started taking acting classes when I was 14. That's when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I watched movies, always, but I didn't think it was a real job. I watched Turner Classic Movies with my parents. I've always loved the old classics.

Julia Garner

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So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

Countee Cullen

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Historically, narratives of forgiveness were part of both the anti-slavery movement and the civil rights movement in America. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' for instance, was based loosely on the life of the Rev. Josiah Henson, who forgave his master that wanted to sell him and beat him after Henson begged him not to.

Anthea Butler

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